Several major legal developments this week underscore how quickly risk can shift across litigation, regulation, and criminal enforcement. For legal professionals, the significance is less about any single headline than the broader pattern: courts, prosecutors, and policymakers continue to drive fast-moving changes that can affect case strategy, disclosure obligations, compliance controls, and enterprise exposure.

Among the most consequential developments are…
Continue Reading Sept. 5 Legal Landscape: The Cases and Crackdowns Shaping Risk This Week

Saturday’s legal landscape reflects a familiar but important convergence: active courts, aggressive regulators, and policy shifts with immediate downstream effects for companies and litigators. While the underlying matters span different practice areas, the common thread is practical risk. For legal departments and outside counsel, these developments are less about headlines and more about signal—where enforcement is heading, what theories are…
Continue Reading Seven Legal Developments to Watch as September 2026 Begins

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit filed a nonprecedential opinion in No. 25-7002 on August 31, 2026. Because the disposition is expressly nonprecedential, its practical importance lies less in creating binding circuit law and more in how it illustrates the court’s application of settled appellate principles to the facts of the case.

For practitioners, the key takeaway…
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The U.S. Supreme Court has granted emergency relief to Republican campaign committees in a dispute over political advertising rates, allowing them to pursue lower-cost broadcast time ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The ruling removes a significant practical obstacle for national party committees seeking to take advantage of advertising rates that can dramatically affect campaign budgets in the final stretch…
Continue Reading Supreme Court Clears Path for GOP to Buy Cheaper TV Ads Before 2026 Midterms

The Missouri Supreme Court has unanimously blocked newly drawn congressional districts backed by President Donald Trump from being used in the November 2026 general election, dealing a significant blow to Republican redistricting efforts in the state. The court also ordered that Missouri voters get a statewide say on whether the districts should remain in place, adding a direct-democracy dimension to…
Continue Reading Missouri High Court Halts Trump-Backed Congressional Map Ahead of 2026

Last week’s ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, brought what may have been the busiest news cycle I can remember for this conference, with a torrent of product announcements dominated by two themes: agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol.I have already covered the conference and several of the week’s biggest stories – including LexisNexis’s Legal …
Continue Reading ILTACON News Round-Up Part 4, The Business of Law: Litera, Aderant, Oddr, TRĒ AI, Intapp

Last week, our Legaltech Week crew presented a live panel at ILTACON discussing our takeaways from the week and the top stories and trends we observed. I recorded it on my iPhone and that recording is now posted, and it’s pasted below.[embedded content]Meanwhile, we’re back again today, live on Zoom at our usual time of 3 p.m. ET. We will…
Continue Reading Legaltech Week: Here’s the Video Of Our ILTACON Panel Last Week, And We’re Back Live on Zoom Today At 3ET

Last week’s ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, brought what may have been the busiest news cycle I can remember for this conference, with a torrent of product announcements dominated by two themes: agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol.I have already covered the conference and several of the week’s biggest stories – including LexisNexis’s Legal …
Continue Reading ILTACON News Round-Up Part 3, Documents, Data and AI: iManage, NetDocuments, Entegrata, Wolters Kluwer, Thomson Reuters, Clio, Avvoka

What were senior leaders focusing on at ILTACON this year and what were the burning topics of conversation at the stands and behind the scenes? In the past week we’ve […]
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I recently finished reading one of Scott Turow’s legal thrillers. As most of you know, Turow is not only an author, but he was also a lawyer, and a trial lawyer at that. At one point in the book, he captured in a single paragraph what it’s really like to try cases. To be a trial lawyer. What he wrote…
Continue Reading Want to Try Cases? It’s Hell. Until You’re Standing at the Podium  

LEGALFLY today (4 September) announced the launch of Contract Intelligence, meaning that the Belgian-founded legal operating system now covers the pre and post signature contract lifecycle, giving legal teams one […]
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UK-founded startup Paravo has emerged from stealth with £450,000 in funding and customers on both sides of the Atlantic. Positioning itself as the first AI-powered revenue engine for law firms, […]
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The Missouri Supreme Court has unanimously blocked the state’s newly enacted congressional map from taking effect in the November 2026 general election, holding that a referendum petition challenging the measure was both valid and timely. The practical result is significant: unless Missouri voters approve the new map, the state will continue using the prior post-2020 census congressional boundaries.

The dispute…
Continue Reading Missouri High Court Freezes New Congressional Map Pending Voter Approval